Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, Jan. 21 and there are a variety of events across Broward County for people to mark the late civil rights movement leader’s birthday. Many of the events are scattered throughout the week and weekend leading up to the holiday. Fort Lauderdale Five Habitat for...

Just in time to tempt your keto diet, Girl Scout cookie sales return Jan. 24, with girls walking door to door and setting up outside grocery stores and other local businesses, as well as some specialty locations. This year, there will be eight varieties, including Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Trefoils,...

The Western High School boys soccer team is hoping that this is the year it finally gets past Cypress Bay and march deep into the postseason. The Wildcats have started the season strong with a 13-3 mark, however, one of those losses was a 4-3 setback against Cypress Bay. Since 2010, the Wildcats...

For the fifth year in a row, outlaw riders whose dirt bikes and ATVs are not legal to drive on highways and streets are expected to descend upon Miami-Dade and Broward counties as soon as Saturday — in what has been described as a celebration of slain civil-rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther...

For the past eight years, Cooper City’s Bob McCarty has made a living on his bicycle. The 46-year-old recently finished second overall in the Florida State Championship Series that began in September and ended in December. The riders compete in those races and they drop the two worst races for...

Three vehicle burglars stole a 9mm Glock handgun from an unlocked SUV and Davie police say they are hoping someone will recognize them from surveillance video and report them. The video shows three males — possibly in their teens — skulking around the Ivanhoe community east of Interstate 75 and...

He may have been drunk or high or just really forgetful but Davie police are calling him a burglar— and they hope someone can identify the man seen in a surveillance video stumbling around a house. The man is seen staggering in circles around a car parked in a driveway in the Forest Ridge community,...

Davie News

A day after 17 people were slaughtered in a South Florida high school, police arrested an 11-year-old who is accused of threatening to shoot up her school in a nearby city. The Davie Police Department arrested Jasmine Powell on Thursday after they say she threatened to bring a gun to Nova Middle...

After winning two national mountain biking championships last summer, Davie’s Jordan Swingle added the Florida State Championship Series title to his growing trophy case. “It's been a good year for sure,” said the 26-year-old Davie resident, who was racing the state series for the first time. “I...

The attack was as sudden as it was chilling. A man wearing a dark hoodie launches himself over the hotel’s front desk and grabs the female clerk working the overnight shift. One gloved hand covers her mouth — the other is holding a gun. Davie police Wednesday released surveillance video of the...

Cooper City News

After a three-week holiday hiatus from soccer competition, players from the Cooper City Optimist Soccer League are biting at the bit to get on the fields to pursue division rivalries. The league includes eight boys and eight girls age divisions that add up to 112 clubs. In the Boys Senior Division,...

When one of their teammates fell while practicing before the recent season-ending cheerleading competition, the Colts Youth Prep (Ages 9-Under) Small Division squad scrambled to come up with a new routine. As Emma Fernandez was whisked away in an ambulance, the Colts took the mat and delivered...

When 15-year-old Eden Hebron began singing a recent Sunday on a Carnegie Hall stage in New York, she had to block out the many thoughts about the varied experiences that led her to that point. Eden and her best friend, Alyssa Alhadeff, both freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, tried...

At the midpoint of the season, the Cooper City High School girls soccer team is churning ahead on a historic pace. The Cowboys have galloped out of the gate with a 13-0 record and have outscored the opposition, 87-2. Those two goals came in the season-opening, 3-2 win over rival Pembroke Pines...